us. For some, it is a liberating influence, pregnant with
possibility. 'The next great task of science,' said Lord Mor-
ley, 'is to create a religion for mankind.' For others it will
be destructive, and so far from creating a religion, will des-
troy it. Such a view finds its clearest enunciation among the
Communists, but it is a strange irony of fate that its next
stronghold is among the technicians of the more highly
industrialised nations in Europe and America. Karl Heim ¹¹
has illustrated this very clearly from official Communist
pronouncements. Thus on 28 June 1948, Pravda, the
central organ of the Communist Party in Russia, published
a series of titles for scientific lectures directed against the
widespread revival of religious 'superstitions.' Among them
was this: 'Every religion contradicts science.' Apparently,
in order to overthrow religious faith, all that was needed
was for scientific workers to give lectures about the con-
struction of the universe, the origin of the sun and the
earth, the biological origins of man and plants, and so on.
Professor Togerow could write in the army newspaper Red
Star: 'The relics of religious faith must be wiped out by
systematic scientific propaganda.' And there is no doubt
about the result of such propaganda. Commenting on these
Press notices, Heim points out the significant thing about
them, that

here is not just a battle about a proper world-view, with an
irreligious version of the world and its process set against
religious faith. The point of view presupposed by the titles is
that the matter no longer calls for discussion. It will be enough
if the generally accepted scientific facts established by re-
search are made known to people. The religious notions . . .
will then disappear of themselves, like phantoms of the night
when the day dawns.

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